2 For you have made the city a heap,the fortified city a ruin;the foreigners’ palace is a city no more;it will never be rebuilt.
3 Therefore strong peoples will glorify you;cities of ruthless nations will fear you.
4 For you have been a stronghold to the poor,a stronghold to the needy in his distress, a shelter from the storm and a shade from the heat; for the breath of the ruthless is like a storm against a wall,
5 like heat in a dry place.You subdue the noise of the foreigners;as heat by the shade of a cloud,so the song of the ruthless is put down.
6 On this mountain the Lord of hosts will make for all peoplesa feast of rich food, a feast of well-aged wine, of rich food full of marrow, of aged wine well refined.
7 And he will swallow up on this mountainthe covering that is cast over all peoples, the veil that is spread over all nations.
8 He will swallow up death forever;and the Lord God will wipe away tears from all faces,and the reproach of his people he will take away from all the earth, for the Lord has spoken.